88 ASPLE.VIITM, § El ASPI.EXIUM. 



veins rather distant sul)horizontally patent, sori distant short 

 and rather broad two-thirds tlie length of the vein, involucres 

 l)ale-coloured firni-niembranaceous. — Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 928 

 {or Cent, of Ferns, t. 28). Metten. Asplen. p. 89. 



Ilab. India ; Mislmiee, Griffith. Sikkim below Darjeeling, Dr. T. Thoumou. 

 Assam, Simons. — A very distinct species. 



19. A. (Euasplenium) Gautieri, Hook. ; small, caudex 

 short stout ascending copiously rooting sparingly paleaceous 

 with subulate black scales, stipitcs tufted compressed dark 

 brown 1-4 inches long winged above with the decurrent base 

 of the frond setose below, fronds herljaceo-membranaceous 

 sul)pellucid 2-4 inches long elliptical-lanceolate obtusely 

 acuminate subentire coarsely and obtusely serrated towards 

 the apex and there rooting and proliferous the base gradu- 

 ally decurrent upon the stipes, veins erecto-])atent distant 

 internal forked at or below the middle terminating at a little 

 distant from the margin, sori distant linear neither extending 

 to the costa nor to the margin, involucres brown membrana- 

 ceous. (Tab. CLXXXIV.) 



Hah. Island of Nissobe, between Madagascar and tl>e eastern coast of Africa, 

 Gautior in Ilerb. Noslr. — A very pretty species of the siniple-frondcd Asplenia, 

 which may rank next to A. GriJJithianuin, Hook. ; hut from which it is abnn- 

 dantly and specifically distinct. It is, too, very uniform in character; one frond 

 only producing a solitary lobe, which seems to he abnormal. The fronds are very 

 thin membranaceous and semi-pollucid, of a uniform darkish-green colour, with 

 no broad stramineous costa as in A. Grijfftlhianum. The apices are generally 

 proliferous. 



20. A. (Euasplenium) concolor, Hook.; small, a span 

 high, caudex short subrepent clothed with dense tomentosi; 

 roots and bearing a few black subulate scales at the sumn)it, 

 fronds tufted elliptico-lanceolate rather obtusely acuminate 

 the apex coarsely crenato-serrate subcarnoso-coriaceous green 

 (as well as the sti])es) rather suddenly attenuated below into 

 a winged stipes 2 inches long, veins rather distant mode- 

 rately patent, sori linear copious on the veins and occupying 

 nearly the whole back of the frond. (Tab. CLXIV. A.) 



Hah. Java, Thos. Lobb. — Unwilling to multiply species needlessly, I cannot 

 but hesitate in giving this species as distinct, possessing as it docs few tangible 

 characters that can be described in words. Can it be the A. cccspitosnm, Bl. En. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 175, of which all the character offered is " Frondihus stipitatis ntrinqne 

 altenuatis crenulatis membranaceis glabris, vcnis furcatis, soris remotis, candice 

 crcspitoso paleaceo ;" a native of Java. To which is added, " ah Aspl. angnslo, 

 Sw., et s])eciebus pra^cedentibus (.^1. villa-forme, Cav., A. Sundetise, etc.) distin- 

 guitur frondc haiul clongata." The nearest affinity among si-ecies known to iiic 



